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This DVD teaches you the skills needed for basic bookbinding in a simple, systematic way. Includes tools and materials such as paper, glues/adhesives, and threads. Basic skills that are shown comprise book anatomy, cutting, scoring and folding. More advanced bindings such as creating single signature books, butterfly and pamphlet stitches, folding basic accordion books, feathering paper, and dividing without fractions..

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Made to accompany Cherryl's book Simply Bound, a JNB Bestseller. Provides an introduction to basic bookbinding skills. Begins with an overview of basic tools and materials. Fully demonstrates single signature, accordion, tea bag, and lotus books. Good resource for beginners, with clear instruction on the fundamentals.

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A thorough explanation and demonstration of the egg-glaire technique for gold tooling. The use of handle letters, lines, and various tools will be explored in order to show how these may be arranged to form titles, textures, and other images suitable for designs on leather bindings.

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DVD53. Printmaking in the Sun / WeldenDVD53. Printmaking in the Sun DVD by Dan Welden.

This DVD video shows every step of making relief and intaglio prints using Solarplates. It begins by showing how to create an image on Mylar using various mark-making techniques. Next you see how the Solarplates are developed and then printed. Tips and advice on exposure times, washing out, registration, inking, preparing paper and the amount of pressure needed from the press ensure that your printmaking experience is easy and successful. Includes a gallery of Solarplates prints with explanations of the techniques used to create them.

Recommended for Louise Grunewald's Letters From the Sun Releif and Intaglio Printing with Solar Plate class at The Summit 2013 conference and at The Passionate Pen 2015 conference.

As he covers a book in full leather, Don Etherington demonstrates the often unappreciated principles of sound forwarding and discuss various aspects of techniques designed to achieve a more durable binding.

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Beginning with a text block that is ready to be covered, Don takes you through every step of the process to achieve a fine, full-leather binding. He shares all of his special techniques, including his own for achieving smooth, beautiful leather corners. Monique fully demonstrates and explains her French-style leather inlays & onlays for design binding. She demonstrates each and every step of how to achieve truly beautiful designs in leather.

Current binders will enhance their craft by refining their techniques and learning new methods. For beginners, the DVDs teach you how to completely cover a book in full-leather and create beautiful multi-color leather inlays & onlays with clear, straight-forward instruction. There has never been an instructional DVD (or even a book) that teaches what you will learn in this video.

This DVD is the seventh in the Bookbinders Workshop Instructional Series and the first in the series by Don Etherington and Monique Lallier, two of the world's most recognized professionals in book conservation & design binding.

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Using leather or paper, the edge-to-edge doublure is a refined and exquisite finish for the inner boards of a designer binding and, if desired, may be made to continue on the fly leaves. A successful and smooth result depends on the careful preparation of the surface underneath the doublure, through the use of special lining and sanding techniques.

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Thoroughly demonstrates his technique of moulding and manipulating the leather during the covering process to produce a more or less spontaneous design statement. Probably the best known example of Cains's work using this technique is illustrated in Philip Smiths book New Directions in Bookbinding (1974) and again in Eric Burdett's The Craft of Bookbinding; A Practical Handbook (1975).

This is a demonstration from the Bookbinding 2000 conference. It starts with an introduction of Anthony Cains and then he speaks for a few minutes.

As for the book demonstrating:
The book he is covering is already bound with boards attached. He shows step by step how to cover the boards with leather and shows attaching the endpapers. But he does not show the sewing and binding techniques used. The book does have raised cords but I do not recognize the actual stitch used.

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This demonstration focuses on techniques for producing an exposed spine binding in full leather for a multiple-section text block. The process is shown from beginning to end.

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